It was recommended that school safety plan should be firmly adopted as an important disaster risk reduction measure in order to keep the children and community safe in case of floods, earthquake, tsunami and other natural disasters.
These psychometric screening tools measure future upside potential rather than traditional risk management tools used by banks for debt contracts, which only measure downside risk.
And since the main macroeconomic factor which affects the comparative attractiveness of stocks and bonds is growth, equity risk premiums are largely a measure of how much risk investors think there is of poor economic growth in the future.
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But without adjusting for risk, this measure of the finance sector's economic worth is meaningless.
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This is a fancy way of saying that statistical significance is not the only way to measure risk.
Two years ago, SAS in London was working on a way to measure risk-adjusted returns down to the individual trader to determine salary and bonuses.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, banks and technology vendors are looking for better ways to analyze and measure risk across the entire financial enterprise.
If you measure risk and return during a time period in which one asset category did poorly, that category will not appear on the efficient frontier.
Using a weighted score based on one-year total return, five-year total return, and five-year Sharpe ratios (a risk-adjusted measure of performance), we chose funds that outperformed their peers in core investment specialties such as: global equities, Europe, Japan, U.S., small companies, and more.
By contrast, Goldman's value-at-risk the amount it could lose on a bad day and thus a widely used (if imperfect) measure of risk appetite hit a new high last quarter, jumping most in equities, even as stockmarket volatility fell.
The duration and amplitude of these swings is one very good measure of risk.
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This broad measure of risk in the Eurozone volume fell -0.4% compared with the previous week.
Measure the risk, price out the options, work with a professional and cover the really big risks.
We just try to measure the risk levels that we see in various asset classes, if you will.
These stocks are strong performers, but a key technical measure indicates risk may be high for new buying.
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You measure that risk in national treasure, lives, and expended dollars.
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And these studies are not really designed to measure heart risk.
In fact, according to CreditSights, credit default swaps (CDS) which measure the risk of default actually tightened (showing the market sees reduced default risk) 15-50 basis points, or from 0.15-0.50%.
The best way to measure the risk of treasury default is to compare treasury yields to various other types of bonds, including those from other counties.. The riskier the bond, the higher the yield.
The Forbes Best Buy rankings aim somewhere down the middle: We give equal weight to a measure of risk-adjusted return and to that element of the hurdle that is publicly reported, the expense ratio.
Two interesting wrinkles to the latest version of these tests: banks get a one-time do over if the Fed rejects their capital plan and a key measure of risk-weighted assets has gotten more stringent.
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The investor who is educated and wise enough to measure the risk they can take on with the amount of emerging market stocks they hold in their portfolios may find annual returns that pass 20% in the ten-year term.
It also says that authorities who cite "health and safety" as a reason for stopping children playing conkers or climbing trees should be aware that successive Health and Safety Executive heads have advocated a measure of risk-taking in children's lives.
Take away the NRSRO designation and the playing field levels out significantly: entrepreneurs pop out of the woodwork with creative ways to measure credit risk, and the market economy helps to select those new and innovative ideas which have the most merit.
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Moreover, risk incentives are harder to measure, and their regulation is easy to circumvent.
From August 3-8, the volatility index (a widely used measure of market risk) more than doubled in price.
Mr Ziff accordingly proposes to replace beta with a measure of total risk.
Ratings provide a proxy measure of country risk and demonstrate a country's commitment to transparency, both of which should help attract foreign capital.
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